Category Archives: Worship

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  Join Us for Worship Transfiguration Sunday, Feb 14, 2021

  Posted on February 13, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  Join us for worship on this Transfiguration Sunday, the Sunday that leads us into Lent. We have a special guest preacher – preaching for us all the way from St. Louis, MO! – for our pre-recorded on-line service. Rev James Ross has just begun work as our new Associate Minister for the Northeast Region of the […]

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  Congregational Vote on the Budget

  Posted on February 6, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  The Budget Working Group has developed, and the Leadership team has approved, a proposed budget for 2021. Our normal process is to hold two meetings, the first being an open Q&A session where members are invited to hear a presentation on the proposed budget and ask questions, followed one week later by a formal congregational meeting […]

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  Join us for Health Ministry and Communion Sunday Worship (Feb 7, 2021)

  Posted on February 5, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

    The first Sunday of February offers the opportunity to start the month with the Sacrament of Communion. Sharing bread and juice on Zoom is a declaration that Christ’s life continues among us. The scripture, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, a well known wisdom text, will be heard and experienced in a virtual walk through the seasons of […]

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  Ripley Chapel Virtual Healing Circle

  Posted on February 4, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Spiritual Practice, Worship

  Tuesday Evening, February 9 at 7 pm An invitation to pray what is on your heart in community. Designed as a contemplative healing practice for those experiencing anxiety including Covid related stresses, grief and for holding dear those who are not with us due to physical distancing or death. Connect deeply to the love, grace, […]

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  Join Us for Worship This Sunday (Jan 31, 21)

  Posted on January 28, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  Join us on-line at 10 am or whenever you can on Sunday for our on-line worship service. Our cameo of the day will be Rev. Ken Orth leading us off from Florida along with a few other in-house special guests. Rev. Will will be preaching a sermon entitled “the Sacred and the Sacrilegious” as we continue to […]

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  Join Us for Worship Service This Sunday (Jan 24, 2021)

  Posted on January 21, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  This week has been one of historic events. Along with the apprehension regarding violence, President Biden’s inauguration also carried the threat of disease. Knowing all that there is to deal with, I struggle to understand who would want to be President; why everyone was smiling so broadly. We might have some of the same questions about the first […]

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  Join Us for Worship This Sunday (Jan 17, 2021)

  Posted on January 15, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  We hope you will join us for our online worship service this Sunday. We’ll allow our own scriptures and some of Martin Luther King Jr’s words to guide us through our worship of God. In the midst of so much national turmoil, then as now, we must remember to root ourselves back into the primacy […]

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  Join us for Worship This Sunday (Jan 10, 2021)

  Posted on January 8, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  Join us on-line for our first pre-recorded worship service of the new year. We complete the birth narrative in the Gospel of Luke with the story of Jesus as a 12-year old in the temple and we remember that “out of the mouth of babes” can come the vision of what we need for the […]

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  Zoom Communion (Jan 3, 2021)

  Posted on December 31, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  A lot of pressure is being put on 2021 to be the year that redeems 2020. Of course, the arbitrary line between one year and another does not promise that a tick of the clock will erase pain and problems. But as the first Sunday in 2021, this Sunday offers the opportunity to start the […]

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  Epiphany Zoom Service

  Posted on December 28, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small Groups, Worship, Youth

  Wed. Jan 6 5 pm On Wednesday, January 6th, we turn our focus away from presents we receive and towards presents for the Christ Child. Epiphany, means showing, an illuminating discovery, and coincides with the arrival of the Three Wise Men at the manger. Our celebration will include three familiar songs/hymns which tell the story. […]

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